Colectivo 60
Appearance
![]() A unit around the metropolitan area of the city of Tigre, Buenos Aires. | |
Headquarters | Escobar central bus station |
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Locale | Buenos Aires metropolitan area |
Service area | Southwestern District of Barracas, Buenos Aires CBD, northwestern Tigre, Buenos Aires and Belén de Escobar |
Service type | Local and express |
Fleet | 400 |
Fuel type |
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Operator | M.O.N.S.A. (Nudo S.A.-Azul S.A.T.A.-M.O.T.S.A.) |
The Colectivo 60 (the number 60 bus route) was founded in 1931 and runs from Constitución station, in the centre of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina to the Tigre Club in the partido of Tigre. The service is operated by Nudo S.A., Azul S.A.T.A. and M.O.T.S.A. and the identifying color of the buses is yellow, with red and black details.
Known locally as El Sesenta ("The Sixty"), the service is sometimes dubbed El Internacional (The International) because it passes through (or close to) a large number of landmarks of the city and of the northern suburbs, to wit:
- Boca Juniors stadium
- Constitución station
- Avenida de Mayo
- Liceo theater
- Argentine National Congress
- Confitería El Molino tea room and the Savoy hotel and ballroom
- Callao y Corrientes commercial district
- Tribunales (courthouse)
- Obras Sanitarias building, Córdoba y Ayacucho
- Buenos Aires university complex:
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Odontology
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry
- Faculty of Social Science
- Faculty of Engineering, Las Heras building
- Clínicas university hospital
- Embassy of Uruguay
- La Recoleta Cemetery
- Recoleta entertainment district
- Automóvil Club Argentino
- Plaza Las Heras
- Rivadavia Hospital
- Fernández Hospital
- Buenos Aires Zoo in Palermo
- Buenos Aires Botanical Garden in Palermo
- SRA exhibition grounds (La Rural)
- Plaza Italia
- United States embassy
- Pacífico train station
- Palermo racetrack
- Military hospital
- Barrancas de Belgrano park and transportation hub
- Chinatown, Bajo Belgrano
- Club Atlético River Plate Stadium
- Cabildo y Juramento (Belgrano high street)
- Cabildo y Congreso (terminal of the subte D line)
- Saavedra bridge
- Olivos city center
- Club Atlético Platense stadium
- San Isidro hospital (San Isidro Partido)
- San Isidro racetrack
- San Isidro cathedral (San Isidro cathedral)
- Tigre stadium (Tigre Partido)
- Tigre fruit market
- Tigre tourism center (gateway to the Paraná Delta).
One branch of the service reaches Tigre through the Pan-American Highway.
On November 13, 2006, MONSA contract drivers went on strike demanding better conditions [1].